H67

Otitis media in diseases classified elsewhere

Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30

Exclusions 13 never code together

H67code

Excludes1

otitis media in:
influenza (J09.X9, J10.83, J11.83)J09.X9 J09.X9 J09.X9 J10.83 J10.83 J10.83 J11.83 J11.83 J11.83
measles (B05.3)B05.3 B05.3 B05.3
scarlet fever (A38.0)A38.0 A38.0 A38.0
tuberculosis (A18.6)A18.6 A18.6 A18.6

Excludes2

certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94

Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.

Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.

Instructional notes 5

H67code

Code first

Use additional code

Notes

Use an external cause code following the code for the ear condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the ear condition

Index entries leading here filed at null

No alphabetic index entry points at this code.

Subordinate codes 4

Additional references

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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.

Maps to no condition category in any loaded model.

Presence is a property of the code. Untick a model to hide it everywhere.

Present FY2024–FY2027.